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Committees - Fuel and Energy Committee - Resolution of Appointment
Helen Coonan voted No, rebelling against the Liberal Party
Passed by a small majority
1 rebellion 88% attendance
Helen Coonan
Former Liberal Party Senator for NSW July 1996 – August 2011
Rebelled 0.2% of the time explain rebellions 48% attendance explain attendance
How do they vote?
Voted consistently for
Voted almost always for
Voted generally for
Voted generally against
Voted almost always against
- Decreasing the private health insurance rebate
- Federal government action on animal & plant extinctions
- Implementing refugee and protection conventions
- Increasing marine conservation
- Increasing scrutiny of asylum seeker management
- Protecting threatened forest and bushland habitats
Voted consistently against
We can't say anything concrete about how they voted on
- A character test for Australian visas
- A citizenship test
- A review of parliamentary entitlements
- A transition plan for coal workers
- Australia's timber industry
- Banning all investment in cluster munitions
- Carbon farming
- Closing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians
- Creating a federal Anti-Corruption Commission
- Decreasing subsidisation of fossil fuels
- Decreasing the gender pay gap
- Encouraging Australian-based industry
- Ending illegal logging
- Funding the national school chaplaincy program
- High speed rail on the east coast
- Increasing Aboriginal land rights
- Increasing access under Freedom of Information law
- Increasing accessibility of government data and documents
- Increasing federal government support for childcare
- Increasing fishing restrictions
- Increasing freedom of political communication
- Increasing housing affordability
- Increasing investment in the coal industry
- Increasing parliamentary entitlements for current MPs and Senators
- Increasing protection of Aboriginal heritage sites
- Increasing protection of Australia's fresh water
- Increasing the age pension
- Increasing the foreign aid budget to 0.7% of Gross National Income
- Investing in climate science
- Live animal export
- Local community consultation on infrastructure projects
- Maintaining or increasing CSIRO funding
- Making more water from Murray-Darling Basin available to use
- Offshore processing for people seeking asylum in Australia
- Privatising government-owned assets
- Promoting multiculturalism
- Protecting citizens' privacy
- Protecting the Great Barrier Reef
- Protecting whales within Australian waters
- Protecting whistleblowers
- Public transport
- Recognising local government in the Constitution
- Reducing waste in Australia
- Removing children from immigration detention
- Removing parallel import restrictions for books
- Requiring a warrant to access citizens’ telecommunications records
- Restricting foreign ownership
- Revoking citizenship of dual nationals involved with terrorism offences by the minister
- Stem cell research
- Stopping tax avoidance or aggressive tax minimisation
Please note that our voting records start in February 2006.
Rebel votes
Helen Coonan has voted against the majority of their party once since February 2006. explain rebellions
Free votes
Helen Coonan has taken part in 4 free votes since February 2006. explain “Free Votes”
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Third Reading - Read a third time
Helen Coonan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 96% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Helen Coonan voted Yes in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 97% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - In Committee - Amend the current process
Helen Coonan voted No in this free vote
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 95% attendance
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Therapeutic Goods Amendment (Repeal of Ministerial Responsibility for Approval of Ru486) Bill 2005 - Second Reading - Read a second time
Helen Coonan voted Yes in this free vote
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 93% attendance
Recent Votes
Recent votes in parliament that this Senator could have attended.
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Bills — Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance and Amendment Power of the Commonwealth) Bill 2010; in Committee
Helen Coonan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 87% attendance
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Bills — Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance and Amendment Power of the Commonwealth) Bill 2010; Second Reading
Helen Coonan voted Yes
Not passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
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Bills — Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Amendment (Disallowance and Amendment Power of the Commonwealth) Bill 2010; Third Reading
Helen Coonan voted No
Passed by a small majority
No rebellions 84% attendance
Compare Helen Coonan with someone else
Shows people in order of those who voted always the same as Helen Coonan (100% agreement) to those who never voted the same (0% agreement).
We only compare those votes where both people attended. This may reveal relationships between people that were previously unsuspected. Or it may be nonsense.
| Agreement | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| 100% | David Fawcett | Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Bridget McKenzie | National Party Senator for Victoria |
| 100% | Ian Campbell | Former Liberal Party Senator for WA |
| 100% | Sean Edwards | Former Liberal Party Senator for SA |
| 100% | Rod Kemp | Former Liberal Party Senator for Victoria |